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Monday, 20 May 2013 19:55 |
By Mark Edelman and Barry Flinchbaugh – Agri Pulse Opinion – May 2013Well Professor, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry passed their Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act on May 14th by a vote of 15 in favor to 5 opposed. Not to be left behind, the House Committee on Agriculture followed suit on the following day by passing their Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM) of 2013 by a vote of 36 in favor to 10 opposed. For full opinion, click here. |
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Monday, 20 May 2013 19:15 |
By Talia Buford – Politico Morning Energy – May 20, 2013Climate activists worry that President Barack Obama’s grassroots organization, Organizing for Action, may be telegraphing his upcoming decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by not coming down on one side or the other of the project. OFA says it is echoing Obama’s stance on the pipeline — that he’s waiting on the State Department to finish its review of the project — but environmentalists say the group should be pushing Obama toward a decision. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 20 May 2013 19:15 |
By Jenny Anderson – The New York Times – May 18, 2013When a handful of retired homeowners from Osborn Island in New Jersey gathered last month to discuss post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding and environmental protection, L. Stanton Hales Jr., a conservationist, could not have been clearer about the risks they faced. “I said, look people, you built on a marsh island, it’s oxidizing under your feet — it’s shrinking — and that exacerbates the sea level rise,” said Dr. Hales, director of the Barnegat Bay Partnership, an estuary program financed by the Environmental Protection Agency. “Do you really want to throw good money after bad?” Their answer? Yes. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 20 May 2013 19:15 |
EPA – May 17, 2013The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announced in a Federal Register Notice (Volume 78, Number 46, Pages 15012 – 15013) published on March 8, 2013 that it was seeking public nominations of technical experts to serve on an expert Panel under the auspices of the SAB to review the EPA’s draft science synthesis report on the connectivity of streams and wetlands to downstream waters. The SAB Staff Office sought public nominations of recognized experts in one or more of the following disciplines: (a) hydrologists, geologists, and fluvial geomorphologists with expertise in the hydrology and formation of large rivers, small streams, wetlands, surface-groundwater interactions, sediment transport, or hydrologic connectivity of waters; (b) ecologists with expertise in stream ecology or wetland ecology, particularly with respect to freshwater stream-wetland connectivity, or wetland ecosystem function; (c) biologists with expertise in population dynamics and dispersal of freshwater organisms, fisheries, aquatic entomology, amphibian biology, or the biologic connectivity of freshwater systems; and (d) water chemists and biogeochemists with expertise in nutrient dynamics or pollutant fate and transport in watersheds. For more information and list of candidates, click here. |
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Monday, 20 May 2013 12:30 |
E News Park Forest – May 20, 2013
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a national assessment that shows the distribution and trends of pesticide use from 1992-2009, providing visible evidence that contamination of pesticides in our nation’s water is clearly a continuing threat. Meanwhile, U.S. Senators are gearing up to put their version of the Farm Bill on the table that would eliminate common sense protections from pesticide applications into our nation’s waterways. These highly controversial amendments would undermine the Clean Water Act and put our health and the environment at risk. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 20 May 2013 12:28 |
By Mark Edelman and Barry Flinchbaugh – Agri Pulse Opinion – May 2013
Well Professor, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry passed their Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act on May 14th by a vote of 15 in favor to 5 opposed. Not to be left behind, the House Committee on Agriculture followed suit on the following day by passing their Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM) of 2013 by a vote of 36 in favor to 10 opposed. For full opinion, click here. |
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